1. and Business Symbolism
Symbolism V:
Number Symbolism
and Business Symbolism
By Don L. F. Nilsen
And Alleen Pace Nilsen

2. 2: Two for One Sale

3. 2: Two’s Company; Three’s a crowd

4. 3: Goldylocks and the Three Bears

5. 3: Three Little Pigs, Trinity and Russian Troyka

6. 3: Three Musketeers and The Three Billy Goats Gruff

7. 4: 4th of July, Quatorze Juillet & 24th of July (Pioneer Day)
Oh, Say can you see….
Allons enfants de le patria….
Pioneer children sang as they walked, and walked, and walked,
And walked……………………………….and walked.
MORMONS: “Pioneer day”; NON MORMONS: “Pie and Beer Day”

8. 5: Cinco de Mayo

9. 6: Six Shooter

10. 7: Seventh Day Adventist Church

11. 7: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Seven Deadly Sins

12. 7-11: Craps and Stores

13. 10: Ten Commandments

14. 12: Twelve Days of Christmas

15. 12 and 13: Dozen and Baker’s Dozen

16. Directions by the Numbers
12 o’clock straight ahead 3 o’clock: right 6 o’clock: back 9 o’clock: left “Watch your six.”

17. 13: Floors, Tatoos, Friday

18. 27: Ray Rice (elevator guy), Frank Mahovlich (Hockey Hall of Fame), and Ron Hextall (600 Penalty Minutes)

19. 42: Tillman, Robinson, Adams “The meaning of life, the Universe and everything” quote from Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

20. 49: 1849 Gold Rush & San Francisco 49ers

21. 66: “Get your kicks…on route…66!”

22. 76: The Spirit of ’76, Philadelphia 76ers & 76 Trombones

23. 300: The Graphic Novel & The Movie

24. 666 Satanic Pentagram

25. 911: Nine One One  Nine Eleven

26. J. C. Penneys

27. 5 & Dime Stores: Ben Franklin, F. W. Woolworth, Kress & Co. , G. C
5 & Dime Stores: Ben Franklin, F. W. Woolworth, Kress & Co., G. C. Murphy, Silver’s, Etc.

28. Dollar Stores

29. Business Symbolism: The Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade

32. Don’t you want to go out
and buy all of these fabulous
American icons?